I’m quite sure my brother was hiding a peace sign behind my head.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
James 1:17
When I was growing up, the front of our home was lined with pink azaleas. We would pose every year (or so it seemed) for an Easter photo near the bouquets of pink. Today my small town heralds an Azalea Trail. March is the time for azaleas to pop. The blooming is fleeting, though. They’ll be gone in two weeks. My One Little Word for 2024 is Peace. Here’s a gathering of goodness for Peace and pink azaleas.
Peeping pink azaleas
Margaret Simon, draft acrostic 2024
Emerge on this March day
A reliable blossom
Carries
Easter tradition
Reflections on the Teche 
Great photo of what Easter used to look like! As always, your words capture the magic of this season of hope and peace.
Margaret, I love the Easter pic with your siblings by the pink azaleas. Your peace acrostic is a lovely reminder of how nature helps us mark special traditions. Thanks for joining us.
Beautiful combo, peace and pink. I love the photo from yesteryear!
Such a lovely photo and those azaleas are gorgeous. I didn’t realise their flowering was so brief. I think peace is urgently needed in 2024 and I love the acrostic poem.
Love that photo and your brother’s Buster Brown haircut! Azaleas are blooming already in the south?! Yay! I’m heading to Georgia and hope to see some splash of bright pink soon to counter New Jersey gray rain.
Love the photo – reminded me of our family photos at Easter. My mother had Azalea’s in her back garden as well. I miss them. We are a bit to far north but may look to see if I can find some that are hardy for the northland. Thanks for the poem this morning.
Margaret: I love the Easter photo. It reminds me I have a favorite one I must find. Also the azaleas, which feed our need for beauty each year. Thanks for sharing these beauties.
Margaret: I love the Easter photo. It reminds me I have a favorite one I must find. Also the azaleas, which feed our need for beauty each year. Thanks for sharing these beauties.
Pink azaleas shout spring. At our previous house we had a bush that reached as high as the porch Bannister. It was beautiful when in bloom. Your picture brought back that memory.
I love that photo–too cute! I have never lived in a home with azaleas, but familiar spring blossoms (lilacs, daffodils, etc.) offer so much more than just a splash of color. I really like the phrase “a reliable blossom.”
I shared this photo with my students. I thought they’d get a kick out of it since I was about their age when it was taken.
What a fun Easter memory! Such a rich and deep color, and I love the adjective of the “reliable” blossom.
Margaret, we had pink azaleas in front of our home too! And numerous photos as kids decked out in Easter clothes or first day of school clothes. Goodness is memories that recall childhood traditions! Thanks for sharing yours.
Margaret, the gathering of family and the annual azalea burst are great reminders that “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.” What the Lord brings is His Easter gift to the world. Gathering is a beautiful word that shares its place on earth, heaven, and in our families. May the peace of God surround and your family with LOVE.
Beautiful! Sorry it’s taken me so long to come read it — I’m on break from school right now, so this is the time! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com